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The Mercer, Sohos first luxury hotel , boasts 75 guest rooms on 6 floors of a landmark romanesque revival in New Yorks thriving Soho district. designed and built by noted architect William Scheckel for John Jacob astor Ii in 1890, the building was completely gutted and redesigned by renowned french interior designer Christian Liaigre.

Hotel Coverage: The Mercer

Way, way, way back before Kanye West turned into one-half of Kimye, he once semi-permanently lived at Soho's ultra cool Mercer Hotel. He then later hooked up The Mercer star with tickets to his concert. An employee even wrote in to tell HotelChatter just how nice Kanye was to them....

The view from The Soho GrandIntroducing our newest hotel guide--HotelChatter's Must Stay Hotels--where we pick four hotels for four different types of travelers in a particular neighborhood of one major city, starting with New York. This is also a seasonal guide so the options may change depending on when you're...

Weve talked about our favorite dishes to order from room service (FTRgrilled cheese rocks the casbah every time), but were recognizing that more and more in-room dining offerings are the vision of the worlds top chefs who have restaurants inside the hotels were patronizing. The room service option may...

Don't skip the homemade pasta at Ai Fiori. Carbs be damned. We always find it amusing New York Restaurant Week falls just a few weeks after the new year, when those plum hotel restaurants we've been dying to try, drop their prices for 20 whole days of diet-busting deliciousness....

They say there's no such thing as bad publicity, so we'll just go ahead and assume that somehow Grand Hyatt, The Mercer and Peninsula New York have managed to find the silver lining in the torrent of media attention that has come each of their ways this week. First up:...

It's what you've been waiting all year for--The 2011 HotelChatter Awards! We'll be bringing you the best and worst of the year all day today and part of tomorrow. Agree or disagree with our picks? Air your thoughts in the comments below.In a way, it was over before it even...

Back in June, we learned that rapper Kanye West had moved into one of our fave NYC hotels, The Mercer Hotel in Soho while his apartment was getting renovated. The Mercer already holds a special place in Kanye's heart because last February, he rented a floor at the hotel and...

The view downtown from Soho, without the Twin Towers of course This weekend is not like other weekends. Why? Because it's the tenth anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and that means everything from heightened terror alerts to large memorial services to front page news around the...

Everyone is gossiping about Kanye West sucking face with Mary-Kate Olsen during his birthday party at the Mercer Hotel's SubMercer club. We agree the ego-filled hip-hop star and one-half of Michelle Tanner is a bizarre pairing, but we're more interested in the fact that West has moved into the...

Whatever the status of relationship with hottie hotelier Andre Balazs may be, it's clear that rocker Courtney Love has not lost her love for the The Mercer Hotel. Stalkerazzi caught her smoking and checking her cell on the hotel's bench in front yesterday. And in a twist, we actually...

It looks like the free hotel hopping is over for crazy-as-all-getout rocker Courtney Love. She and her hot hotelier beau Andre Balazs have called it quits. We were in disbelief when we heard that Love was shacking up with Balazs, whose exes include Uma Thurman. After all, Love seems...

The Daily Mail asks,"Why does Karl Lagerfeld need so much luggage when he wears the same thing all the time?" A valid question, to be sure. But what we want to know is: How much did The Karl tip the bellhops at The Mercer after they carted his 14 pieces...

Yesterday we saw some news going around about our sexiest hotelier Andre Balazs dating druggie crazy Courtney Love. The hook-up seemed so impossible we tossed the notion aside, dismissing it as an erroneous report. We just figured Courtney and Andre were seen talking closely at an event and the...

'Twas the night of the Met Costume Gala, And all through the cityAll the celebrities were out partyingAnd it got...not pretty. Whether this little ditty of a rumor is 100% accurate or not (people tend to see things that are ever-so-slightly more exaggerated when it's late at night and...

If there is one place that can get away with sitting you underneath an active sidewalk with the possibility of plaster falling into your food, then it is Mercer Kitchen at The Mercer Hotel. A magnet for hungry hipsters in Soho, Mercer Kitchen owes its fame to the fashion...

Gwyneth Paltrow's "Lifestyle" website, GOOP, teaches us how to live like Gwyneth. Each section on the site  Make, Go, Get, Do, Be, See  contains links to weekly newsletters with a treasure trove of invaluable advice on how to do such things the way she wants us to,...

New Yorkers (or New York tourists): Winter Restaurant Week is upon us. During this magical time  which runs January 18-23 and 25-30  over 250 NYC restaurants offer fixed-price lunches for $24.07 and dinners for $35.00. Reservations opened up today, and for the first time ever, some participating...

As we've been poking around new hotels that have opened recently, we are noticing a trend--Bookshelves. Hotels are trying to not only appeal to your nightowl tastes with their fancy celeb chef restaurants and their dark mysterious lounges but also to your inner bookworm.Some examples of bookshelves in new...

Oh, poor, poor Nate on Gossip Girl. He's gotten himself caught between a rock and a hard bitch -- and we're not so sure it's going to be so easy for him to get out with his pretty, pretty face unscathed this time. On last night's Gossip Girl episode,...

While one hotel in Tribeca frets about finding an executive chef, the rest of Manhattan hotels are looking forward to Restaurant Week.For New Yorkers and anyone visiting New York between July 21 and August 1--the flood gates are (almost) open as Amex cardholders can begin placing reservations for Restaurant Week...

Fancy a breezy spring bike ride around Chelsea? Hop one of the Schwinn Cruisers for rent at The Maritime Hotel, but be sure to dress your best as photoblogger populaire The Sartorialist might be lurking `round the corner. Last week one such lucky(?) guest found himself posing for the entire...

Thanks to Urban Daddy, we now know how to get to Submercer, the previously hard-to-find (and get into) bar at The Mercer Hotel.Apparently, the place was closed for over five years (at least to the public) but is once again open for business. UD reports: To get there, pass the...

Fashion Week begins tomorrow in Manhattan. We hope you have been starving yourself! We have. It turns out being sick totally helps you lose weight. You should try it. Go outside with your hair wet and you'll look like a skinny minnie in no time. Here's the latest round-up of...

More AB News for todayTucked inside the glut of fashion advertising pages of the newest edition of Vanity Fair (with Harrison Ford and Shia LeBeouf on the cover), is a super pull-out spread of Andre Balazs for Charles Schwab. We nearly missed this ad for two reasons--1) we always skip...

The NY Daily News reported today that hotelier Andre Balazs is looking to unload some of his hotels such as the Hotel QT:The celeb-friendly hotelier would keep The Mercer in SoHo and would continue to manage and operate all his hotels under the proposed deal. "We want to take the...

In which, HotelChatter readers are treated to exclusive hotel deals dug up by us. All deals have a limited amount of rooms attached to them and may sell out quickly. Today's Hotel Deals 11.16.07 - 11.18.07Hyatt Andaz London *Hotel Opening*$240/Night for a 260 Sq Ft Queen DoubleThe key to...

The clock in front of the Bowery Hotel.The clock in front of the Mercer Hotel.Ok we know you are probably sick of all our NYC reports from last month but we were flipping through our photos and we were reminded of something. When we checked into The Mercer, we mentioned...

At last, here is the video tour of room 504 at the Mercer Hotel where we spent a night last week and spotted Adam Levine of Maroon 5 in the hotel lobby.More fun things about the Mercer after the jump.MORE ...

So yesterday upon checking out of the Mercer Hotel, we spied Adam Levine of Maroon 5 eating some Mercer Kitchen grub in the hotel lobby.He was pretty low-pro, just dining with two other dudes. There's really nothing else we can say about that as we're so not into stalking celebrities....

Yesterday we snapped this shot of our latest location in NYC and so many of you are very well-educated on lower Manhattan hotels.Despite the bland bed shot, almost all of your correctly guessed that we are holed up in the posh Mercer Hotel. Perhaps you have studied our Downtown NYC...

The NY Post has the scoop today on the new management for the legendary The Chelsea Hotel. The Post reports that Richard Born and Ira Drukier, "of Mercer Hotel fame," will be doing some revamping of the bohemian outpost. Now, when we think of the Mercer Hotel we think of...

She may not have passed out or "fallen asleep" like her once arch-rival Britney Spears did at Pure in Las Vegas, but Christina Aguilera kept it classy as she hosted the New Year's Eve party at the Hudson Hotel.And the NY Daily News reports that John Mayer and Jessica Simpson...

Zoe Cassavetes may not be a familiar name right now but we predict that she will very soon.Daughter of indie director John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands, Zoe shunned the film-making world in favor of...get this...the hotel world. We know, crazy. Zoe made her mark at Andre Balazs' Mercer Hotel...

Click Here to Go Straight to the Downtown NYC MapBefore there was Hotel QT, The Standards and The Raleigh, Andre Balazs opened The Mercer Hotel way back in 1998. It took Balazs eight years to open the darn thing after investment hurdles and trying to accommodate historical landmarks (the...

Last week the NY Times did a round-up of New York hotels for 2006. This week we have a list courtesy of the NY Post who's decided to pass over the "usual suspects" and celebrate the city's classic hotelsLeading off the paper's top five hotels for right now is the...

According to New York Daily news, 47 year old Madonna (the ghost of pop's past) showed up at the Mercer proclaiming her love for everything Balazs. Madonna was fixing his shirt and cooing about how much she likes his hotels. She was acting like she didn't have a husband,...

According to UK's Sunday Mail rag, Kate Moss is currently holed up at the Mercer Hotel in Soho where she has been in pseudo hiding since last Friday. Why is she seeking refuge at the Mercer? Could be because of all the recent photos floating around showing her cutting...

[Update: Reuters is now reporting Russell Crowe and Concierge Nestor are now settling for $100,000! Um, that is a little different than $11mm. Our favorite part of the latest chapter: The New Yorker magazine reported that Crowe was enraged because the hotel clerk dismissed his frustration by saying "whatever"...

More details about Russell Crowe's Phone-Tossing Incident are coming out. According to the New York Post, as soon as Crowe chucked the phone at the Mercer Hotel concierge, he threw a ceramic vase for good measure. And the entire episode was videotape. A source told the paper: It's all...

Now that Russell Crowe has apologized for chucking a phone at an employee at the Mercer Hotel and will reportedly be "making it up to his wife forever", a new report has surfaced about Crowe's bad hotel behavior. According to the New York Post, a former Mercer Kitchen employee...

Looks like Russell Crowe didn't enjoy his stay at The Mercer as much as our friends at NewYorkology. According to Newsday, the Cinderella Man was arrested after he allegedly threw a phone at a Mercer Hotel employee, striking him in the face, during an argument at around 4:20 a.m....

[Editor's Note: Amy of NewYorkology fame was lucky enough to spend a weekend at the Mercer Hotel. Here is the scoop, enjoy--] My husband and I just spent a romantic weekend at The Mercer for Memorial Day on the occasion of our fourth wedding anniversary. The place was pretty...

[Editor's Note: Amy over at Newyorkology was kind enough to send us photos of her recent stay at the Mercer. We have been dying to get our photographer in one of their rooms, but have been rebuffed thus far, so it is nice to get some photos of the...

HotelChatter 2004 Award :: Best Love Story In a year when Howard Stern made news from wire to wire, we would be remiss not to take a careful look at his Mercer Hotel love story. This was another tough category, involving a tryst between Marky Mark and Jessica Alba on...

Hotel News Resource reports that a new Four Points by Sheraton will open a new moderately-priced hotel in New York City's Soho area. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? We know, we know, SoHo is sacred, after all the Apple Store, and Gawker Media world headquarters...

Ahh, we love a good love triangle. Especially when it becomes a love triangle story set in a NYC hotel. In this case SoHo's Mercer Hotel and Mercer Kitchen served as the setting for a very unlikely love story. Four or five years ago Jen Crisafulli (the apprentice girl...

Is the Mercer Hotel just about the hippest place in the world or what? When you walk into Andre Balazs' Mercer Hotel there is no sign, no branding, just a bunch of people chatting it up in the lobby/lounge area. The spare design of the Hotel's interior and...

July 16, 2004

Partner Reviews: The Mercer

The Mercer Hotel is in a great location and a great building. My compliments end there. The price of the place is insane and some members of the hotel's staff think they are God's gift to humanity. They are rude, arrogant and unsmiling. Why? I've stayed in so many great hotels that are made great by the service. This one lives off its location, facility, and high-visibility clients. Why anyone would ever return to this place eludes me. It is like eating at a high-priced restaurant where the food is no good, but the ambiance is nice. If a luxury hotel comes with great sheets but rude service, what good is it? Really, unless rude people make you feel self-important, look for an alternative hotel that comes with a smile.

When requesting a romantic getaway the Mercer Hotel provided us with champagne and rose petals. The continuously surprised us every step of the way. The amenities were fantastic, great robes, fabulous bathroom supplies, and a great mini bar. The room service is fast, reasonable and delicious. Naromi really helped us out and was fantastic!

Nice place, but I would certainly not say to stay away from the Muse! The Muse is in an EXCELLENT location, within walking distance from just about everything people come to NY for! The Prescriptives bath products in the Muse's beautiful bathroom are the icing on the cake! Both exceptional, albeit expen$ive place$.....

The Mercer is the best hotel in New York for people how got the few extra dollars to spend for an exclusive downtown setting without the package deal people. Strong L.A crowd (homeless fashion attitude). Being at the hotel also gives you access to the Submercer which still maintains a good underground existence. Room service from the Mercer Kitchen is unmatched. Go for the wasabi pizza when you check in.

Hotel was so lame! We went for a getaway even though we live in Manhattan. Room was tiny and starck, and stuffy. Someone kept knocking on our door, there were no DO NOT DISTURB signs. TV did not work. They changed our room finally. Food was great though. Wall Street Regent is THE place to go for a couple!! This place was not worth the price.

Staying at the Mercer is really a treat. The room was heaven from the extra large bathtub to the superior amenities. The hotel is in a great location in SoHo and the Mercer Kitchen has amazing food. It was romantic and fun. I couldnt have been more pleased.